They're no Dummies, Obama would have warned them - No early warning for U.S. on Israeli strikes in Syria

No early warning for U.S. on Israeli strikes in Syria | Reuters

The World's Gone Mad Today

Weenie 'rinos', humbugs and hoodwinks... that's about all we get from the Republican majority in the House of Representative. The worst part is they are still better than any Democrat majority, but not much. m/r

The World's Gone Mad Today

May 4, 2013 in Burt Prelutsky

My title comes from a Cole Porter lyric for “Anything Goes.” If anything, it’s even more relevant today than when he wrote it 79 years ago.

For instance? For instance, we dither around while tinhorns in Iran and North Korea threaten to nuke us. I say that when you’re in an alley fight with thugs, you toss out the Marquis of Queensbury rules and do whatever needs to be done to cripple your opponent. What you don’t do is ask him time and again what you have to give him so that he’ll leave you alone, while in the meantime he has all the time in the world to get his ducks, not to mention nuclear missiles, in a row.

For instance, I heard that Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI), chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, is refusing to push for repeal of the ObamaCare tax on medical devices. It seems that he’s afraid that if the House sends such a bill to the Senate, Harry Reid will pull something tricky. I agree that it’s always in America’s best interests to distrust Sen. Reid, but that is hardly a good reason not to force him to deal with a bill that would go a long way to help various businesses stay solvent and keep thousands of workers gainfully employed.

If Camp is this easy to bluff, every poker player in Washington, D.C., must be eager to have this pigeon sitting at his table, just waiting to be plucked.

People used to joke that the Democrats have taxed just about everything but the air we breathe. In Maryland, the left-wing legislature is getting close with the new rain tax that will cost homeowners anywhere between $50 and $200 annually. The bill states that if you own a roof or a driveway, which are identified as impervious surfaces, you will be held responsible for your share of the tainted water that runs off into Chesapeake Bay. Hey, don’t look at me, you folks elected these humbugs.

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This Is The World's First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun (Photos)

No matter what the government tries to regulate .... they are just another bunch of gangsters. The market will work around the government thugs in search of freedom. m/r

This Is The World's First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun (Photos) - Forbes

This works the best of all! DIY Law Enforcement in Cash-Strapped Oregon County

Nearly thirty years ago, I lived in an unincorporated area of San Mateo County, California. It was along the Pacific Coastside. It was a naturally wild area, with difficult access and pieces of Highway One would fall into the waves below the cliffs every so often.

We had no mail delivery. You picked it up at the Post Office. We had no Police. We rarely even saw a County Sheriff's Deputy. Most of the official law enforcement was from the Highway Patrol or the Coast Guard for rescue.

The real safety and law enforcement was by us, the citizens. Every neighbor I knew was armed and ready. We bad so little crime it was big news when even a misdemeanor took place. Most of the criminals were from outside the area, traveling vagrants, occasional teens gone wild or migrant farm workers.

But we all protected each other and ourselves. It was never official, rarely spoken of, but it was a fact of our lives. It just happened, organically, like eating or breathing.

Thing have changed there since. It developed, filled up with California Liberals. Now it is PC and has much more crime.  m/r

DIY Law Enforcement in Cash-Strapped Oregon County - YouTube

Published on May 1, 2013

"They will not send an officer out, so we are on our own totally," says Sam Nichols, co-founder of Citizens Against Crime. CAC is a group of around 20 armed volunteers who have been conducting routine patrols in and around O'Brien, Oregon since last summer. CAC patrols "are always a minimum of two people," says Nichols, precisely because they want to avoid the kind of thing "that happened in Florida, the case where Zimmerman shot the boy."

Why are the citizens of O'Brien patrolling their own streets? Josephine County is a rural area in south western Oregon with serious budget problems. Back in 1916, the federal government bought up millions of acres of land that had been owned by the railroads. The move left 18 Oregon counties without a significant source of property tax revenue. To make up for the lost taxes, the feds began giving the Oregon counties a share of the timber revenues in 1937. The program worked until environmental regulations severely curtailed logging in Oregon. By 1998, timber revenues had dropped to just a third of what they were in 1989. Temporary federal timber subsidies filled the gap, but those subsidies were phased out last year.

This year, Josephine County slashed its public safety budget from $20 million to less than $9 million. As a result, the county was forced to release 39 prisoners, including people charged with assault, burglary and rape. Only three sheriffs patrol Josephine County, an area larger than Rhode Island, and those sheriffs only respond to life-threatening calls.

The self-reliant folks who live in Josephine County aren't likely to raise their own taxes any time soon, but lots of citizens are willing to do their part to deter criminal activity. Sam Nichols and the other members of Citizens Against Crime strap on guns, turn on flashing lights mounted on their vehicles and keep an eye out for suspicious activity. Former deputy sheriff Carol Dickson maintains a Facebook page called To Catch a Thief as a kind of virtual neighborhood watch program. The page currently has more than 1600 followers.

"Some people are taking the law into their own hands, which obviously scares the heck out of me," says Josephine County Sheriff Gil Gilbertson. But because of the severity of Josephine County's budget problems, Gilbertson isn't complaining too loudly. As he puts it, "law enforcement in this community is weak at best."

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Produced by Paul Feine and Alex Manning.

The Himmler Hymnal - Excluded by the Inclusion Cops

When did sharia law take precedent? 
Since 9/11, when the opposite should have happened. 
Don't feel any smug security in the U. S., we have our own sad Gestapo. m/r

Excluded by the Inclusion Cops | National Review Online
By  Mark Steyn 5-2-13

As some readers will know, I’ve fought a long battle in Canada to restore freedom of speech to a country that should never have allowed itself to lose it. So I find this example of naked intimidation by state power especially repugnant:

Pamela Geller, tireless campaigner against Islamic imperialism (and a lady I had the honor of being introduced by at CPAC a few years back), was scheduled to give a speech at a Toronto synagogue on May 13th. Miss Geller is not a convicted terrorist or terrorism-supporter or someone who argues for the execution of all homosexuals. If she were, she could speak at any Canadian venue with impunity. Instead, here’s what happened next:

TORONTO - York Regional Police threatened to remove a rabbi as one of the force’s chaplains if he hosted a controversial anti-Islamist speaker at his Thornhill synagogue.
Insp. Ricky Veerappan, of the force’s diversity, equity and inclusion bureau, confirmed he and officers from the service’s hate crimes unit met with Rabbi Mendel Kaplan of the Chabad Flamingo Synagogue on Tuesday.
They expressed concern about an upcoming talk to be given by Pamela Geller, a vocal critic of radical Islam. She protested past plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero in New York City, and has posted anti-Jihad messages in that city’s subway system.

When the York Regional Police Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Bureau show up thwacking their truncheons against their palms and saying, “Nice little multifaith advisory committee gig you got going, Rabbi. Shame if anything were to happen to it”, a prudent man gets the message:

Subsequent to his meeting with police, Kaplan cancelled Geller’s May 13 talk.

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The Real Heros! - COL. ALLEN WEST: Heroism: Are Gay Basketball Players Greater Heroes than Decorated Soldiers? - YouTube

It is safe to say that if you get praised for the weeniest things in life by mendacious, self-serving and self-agrandizing politicians, then you are a publicity punk.
But if you have given a leg and still passed the physically most rigorous service course and were an example to your command or you lost your career to honestly protect the Nation, then you are a real hero unto the rest of us and deservedly most confident in yourself. m/r

COL. ALLEN WEST: Heroism: Are Gay Basketball Players Greater Heroes than Decorated Soldiers? - YouTube

Published on May 3, 2013

Col. Allen West discusses NBA basketball player Jason Collins. Collins revealed publicly that he is gay, and received a telephone call from President Obama. Col. Allen West contrasts this with the heroism of soldiers like Sgt. Greg Robinson, who became the first amputee to complete Air Assault School. The training was so grueling that Robinson broke his prosthetic leg twice. Did Sgt. Robinson receive a call from President Obama? Did other decorated soldiers like Army Lieutenant Col. Matthew Dooley? Find out.

Only from "Fast and Furious" Let's See Illegal Guns Came from the DOJ and ATF and Mexicans! Obama blames Americans for Mexican deaths: ¿Most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States¿

He is complicit in "Fast and Furious" as well as a liar, 90% of Mexican gang guns are from China! m/r

In gun-control argument, Obama blames Americans for Mexican deaths: ¿Most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States¿ | Mail Online

How to Ruin a great book with Terrible Everything! Baz Luhrmann Adds 3-D and Hip-Hop to ‘The Great Gatsby’

Baz Luhrmann, who's name sounds like breaking wind followed by a belch, should have called this God-awful tripe "Son of Moulin Rouge." Five movies down and counting.
If you want a great story, written great with a great sense of the era with great personal aspirations and great disappointment, read F. Scott Fitzgerald's great book. I just doesn't seem to translate to stage or film. It is too personal. m/r

Baz Luhrmann Adds 3-D and Hip-Hop to ‘The Great Gatsby’ - NYTimes.com

Obama & Biden both hate the Constitution. Biden: 'There Should Be Two Senators from the State of D.C.'

They hate the Law that made our land, One out of connivance and the other from stupidity. 
Walter is the only one who isn't the dummy.
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Biden: 'There Should Be Two Senators from the State of D.C.' | The Weekly Standard
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Biden compares a woman coming of age to "a snake in the bed."

MAY 2, 2013 • BY DANIEL HALPER

Last night in Washington, Joe Biden stated that abused women fear getting "raped again by the system." He also made the push that Washington, D.C. should be its own state, with two U.S. senators.
Via the pool report:

Piles of Bidens are here. In addition to Kathleen [Biden's daughter], VP Biden's wife Jill, his sons Beau and Hunter, and his granddaughters Maisy and Finnegan are also here.
VP Biden began his remarks by praising Kathleen for the passion she brings to the cause. He described his initial push for VAWA in the early 90s, when "nobody thought very much of it," including women's groups. Biden singled out D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton for her help in getting it passed -- and gave a plug to D.C. having equal representation in Congress.
"By the way, there should be two senators from the state of D.C.," he said to hoots and hollers.

Two new U.S. senators from Washington, D.C. would almost surely be Democrats. In the last presidential election, President Obama picked up 91.4 percent of the vote in Washington, D.C.; Mitt Romney picked up only 7.1 percent.
Biden also made comments about women coming of age:

He spoke of the wonders of having granddaughters: "All you women out there: Daughters are wonderful. Granddaughters are betters." He lamented, though, that they grow up.
"When they're 12 to 14, a dad puts his beautiful little daughter to bed. And then the next morning, there's a snake in the bed."

Speak All Evil - Islam, Never Heard of IT - The New York Times Erases Islam from Existence

Nary the words Muslim nor Islam are paired with Terror by the 'schmata' press that is chronically sucking up to the most dangerous "muslim-raised' executive we possibly could have had at the exact worst time in our history. Murphy's law. m/r

The New York Times Erases Islam from Existence | FrontPage Magazine

By Daniel Greenfield On May 3, 2013

The media coverage of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has one theme and one tack. Like 30 of the 31 men on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list, they were terrorists who just happened to be Muslim.
While the New York Times dispatched its best and brightest lackeys to Boston to write sensitive pieces on how hard it was for the two Tsarnaevs to fit in, it fell to a UK tabloids like The Sun to conduct an interview with the ex-girlfriend of the lead terrorist and learn that he wanted her to hate America and beat her because she wouldn’t wear a Hijab.
There are all sorts of jobs that Americans won’t do. Like pick lettuce, bomb the Boston Marathon and report honestly on the motives of the bombers. The only news network that operates outside the media consensus is owned by an Australian mogul who also owns The Sun.
Americans like to think of their press as freer, but it’s only free in the sense that it voluntarily puts on its own muzzle. European tabloids get into bloody brawls with regulators. American newspapers have nothing to brawl about. They will gleefully report anything that undermines national security at the drop of a hat, knowing that they won’t be touched, but there is a long list of subjects that they won’t touch with a million-mile pole.
In Europe, editors risked their lives to publish the Mohammed cartoons. In America, on the rare occasion that they were depicted, they were usually censored. CNN, which could show Kathy Griffin trying to molest Anderson Cooper, without the benefit of pixelation or a suicide button, blurred out Mohammed’s face; assuming that Muslims would appreciate the sensitivity of treating their prophet’s face like an obscene object.
The American media does not need to be censored. It censors itself.
Did the New York Times really fail to come across Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s ex-girlfriend while they were busily interviewing every single person in Boston who ever ran into the future terrorists? The New York Times may be incompetent, but it isn’t that incompetent. If it could track down Tamerlan’s old coach, it could track down his old girlfriend. It chose not to.
So did every other paper.
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